"Why did you call me madam?" asked Jodie Whittaker's Doctor in the middle of her first big scene of premiere episode "The Woman Who Fell to Earth." "Because you're a woman," replied Yasmin (Mandip Gill). The Doctor responds with brief surpr...
Bringing Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's novel Good Omens to the screen was a saga far too long. Multiple attempts to make the fantasy-comedy story into a movie had failed, and it was then decided to turn it into a television sh...
A weird baby, a time-hopping sister, and a toddler on an epic adventure - I'm sold! It’s all here in the trailer for Mirai, the latest whimsical anime family feature from Mamoru Hosoda. The feature looks to be a perfectly adorable f...
I thoroughly enjoyed Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them for two reasons: 1) Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander was absolutely adorable and 2) the film finally let us explore the Wizarding World of Harry Potter instead of keeping us...
Like a TARDIS after a fiery regeneration sequence, a new age of Doctor Who is crashing down towards us at a breakneck pace. With a new Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) and a new TARDIS crew (Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole, and Mandip Gil...
BBC clearly has high hopes for their adaptation of the His Dark Materials trilogy as word has come in that despite the first season still being in production, and the premiere date not even announced, they've greenlit the second s...
Apocalypse Rising is such a banal, generic title. It’s a word combination that filters straight to the back of your mind. It sounds so tedious and lackluster that you would wonder why anyone made it and if anyone would be dumb enough ...
Just in time for National Bowtie Day, Variety has confirmed that former Doctor Who leading man Matt Smith will join the cast of Star Wars: Episode IX. You can stop clutching onto your Doctor Who/Star Wars ...
Tokyo Vampire Hotel has a scene in which a legless Geisha vampire who feeds people to the hotel through her vagina laughs maniacally as a fountain of blood streams from an open wound into her mouth and heavy metal music pulses and pounds in...
Lucasfilm and their corporate overlords at Disney are on track to begin production on Star Wars: Episode IX, signifying it by officially announcing the core cast of the film. Most of the names were to be expected, with a couple of new ...
Take a moment to consider how you would imagine a movie about cowboy-ideal-personified Sam Elliott as a man who kills both Hitler and Bigfoot in that order. Fire, tanks, action, Nazis, and then two major showdowns against one of the world's...
Mandy, the second feature from director Panos Cosmatos, has just released its first trailer, and it is a spectacular showing of surreal horror and violence. The plot takes place in 1983 and shows Red (Nicolas Cage) work to slaughter his wa...
Hey, do you not live in China but still want to watch the bonkers Animal World? Well, you're in luck, because Netflix just acquired its international rights. Everywhere outside of China is due to get this dose of clown-boy LSD on the world...
Warner Bros. and Robert Zemeckis are in final negotiations for him to direct a remake of Roald Dhal's The Witches. This is meant to be a more direct adaptation of the book in which a boy returns to England with his grandmother, an ex witcho...
Boots Riley's first feature, Sorry to Bother You looks like it's going to be a very surreal good time. We have telemarketer, Cassius using his white voice to achieve success and enter what looks like it's going to be the very bizarre world...
Eli Roth has been making some pretty juvenile projects his whole life. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Some are totally watchable (Cabin Fever, Hostel). Others are really bad, but compelling (Hemlock Grove). Most, though, are jus...
Tommy Wiseau, a man known for making a movie all on his own without any vision or preparation or any idea what he was doing and somehow pulling it off, will be bringing his singular personality to a new project sometime in the future. After...
Look, we've all been there. You're showing your parents the master bedroom after a night of serious self-loving, and there twisted in your sheets lies your limited edition My Left Nut vibrator. Your mother covers her mouth and says, "Oh. Th...
Rick Famuyiwa has been selected to write and direct an adaptation of Charles Burns's Black Hole graphic novel for New Recency and Plan B. The director's most notable work is 2015's Dope, which was a freewheeling comedy caper. The movie was ...
Imagine if you will a rotating wheel formed of wood and axes with a steam-breathing cow skull filling its center. In stuttering animation, this contraption rolls across a hill to a shed where a cow is chained. The contraption uses its ax-le...
With what Netflix would call an underreported 11 million viewers over its 'opening frame,' Bright is a proven success. Sure, critics (though I strongly disagree) panned it, but audiences loved it. Thus it's no surprise that Netflix, as...
Buddy-cop movies: you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all, am I right? No, it turns out, not at all. Bright, Netflix’s most expensive film to date ($90M), directed by David Ayer and starring Will Smith and Joel...
News has been brewing for days now that Amazon was pursuing a deal with Warner Bros. and the estate of J.R.R. Tolkien to bring an adaptation of The Lord of the Rings to television (or streaming), and today, it was confirmed.
News broke Friday that Amazon is in discussions with with Warner Bros. and the J.R.R. Tolkien estate to acquire television rights for the epic fantasy classic. Amazon founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, is looking for content that is "large-s...
While I like the Marvel Cinematic Universe overall, I've never been that interested in the Thor movies. I love the Walt Simonson run on The Mighty Thor, but the previous live-action films featuring the God of Thunder never really appealed t...
Yes, Suicide Squad director David Ayer is teaming up with Will Smith again. Yes, that guy does look eerily reminiscent of Killer Croc, one of Deadshot's (Smith) buddies from the old squad. And yes, Suicide Squad was awful. But none of that ...
And thus we were left to feel slightly less excited about Sunday evening, a time usually reserved for the doldrums of the weeks as it foretold the coming of the long winter that is Monday mornings. But boy oh boy, what a rush to get there! ...
If you've read Stephen King's prolific Dark Tower saga you know it's a weird, wonderful, flawed, brilliant, mess of an epic that touches so many genres it's hard to classify it at all. It bounces from western to science fiction to...
Based on reports from some inside sources Variety is reporting that The Dark Tower had a very rock production. This might not come as a surprise since the entire process of bringing Stephen King's book series to any size screen has tak...
Despite the giant pile of crap that was Suicide Squad, David Ayers is still a director I get excited for. And despite his recent spate of lackluster films, Will Smith is still an actor I think can deliver some great performances. Because of...
'Tis the season of San Diego Comic Con, and as such, we're getting loads of trailers to sort through here at Flixist. And one of the best trailers we've seen so far comes to us from none other than the visionary director Guillermo Del Toro,...
Our first look at Ava DuVernay's A Wrinkle in Time left me a little underwhelmed. I just wasn't seeing the sort of magic that the book captured. The first trailer, however, is bringing back my excitement. This looks pretty visually com...
I have to admit when Neill Blomkamp said he was going to be releasing a bunch of new short films for free through both Steam and YouTube I was skeptical about the quality of them or how much I would enjoy them. This is not to say that I don...
Bong Joon-Ho's Okja is a chimera of genre and tone. It's a lovable mutant like its titular super pig--the best super pig, we're told, the superlative like something out of Charlotte's Web. Which makes sense. As a director, Bong has avoided ...
It's been roughly a month since the last trailer for HBO's Game of Thrones dropped, but when you're hotly anticipating one of the best shows on TV, that wait can become an agonizing struggle. On top of that, GoT is premiering in summer rath...
Bong Joon-Ho's Okja looks like a hoot--a Spielbergian eco-adventure about a brave girl and her mutant super pig. Reviews out of Cannes have been generally positive, and Bong himself seems pleased with Netflix allowing him to have final cut ...
Somehow, after 17 years of hell, Terry Gilliam has finished shooting The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. No, this is not a joke. He did it. Gilliam finally did it. And he lived to tell the tale on Facebook over the weekend. Gilliam shared the f...
While HBO released a teaser spot for Game of Thrones season 7 two months ago, it was more of a narrative reminder of what's to come based off of existing soundbites. No new footage was revealed. This was a problem for the rabid GoT fan, as ...
Netflix -- because it evidently doesn't have enough things to get excited about -- has announced that it is working with the Jim Henson Company to produce a 10 episode prequel to the classic film The Dark Crystal, called The Dark Crystal: A...
Bong Joon Ho is one of Korea's most acclaimed and beloved filmmakers, and one of the most respected directors in the world. He made an international name for himself with 2003's Memories of a Murder, and went on to craft The Host, Mother, a...
